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" I grew up having the library as the best place ever. I spent a lot of weekends there as a kid - my parents would drop me off and leave me there all day. I would just sit in the back and read whatever I could find. "

Karin Slaughter

Place

Library

Day

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" It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff. "

" I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on. "

" Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see the - any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff. "

" Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. "

" My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes. "

" I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there! "

" The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.' "

" I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way. "

" I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that. "

Karin Slaughter

Always

Books

" I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. "

" I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily. "

" I love twins stories. "

" I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. "

" I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy. "

Karin Slaughter

Crime

Growing

" I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder. "

" Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. "

Karin Slaughter

Light

Writing

" Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. "

" Women know how to scare other women. "

" Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it. "

" Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory. "

" Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work. "

" I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. "

" As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. "

" As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own. "

" As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. "

" What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them. "

" It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude. "

" Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. "

" You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel. "

" With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. "